organization:u.s. department of education

As 2017 nears its end, we look back at our most popular social media and website posts. They reflect this moment of intensifying suppression by Israel advocacy groups aligned with the Trump administration’s anti-civil rights and anti-civil liberties agenda. They highlight some of the more egregious cases we’ve confronted this year – from Israeli soldiers harassing UCI students on campus, to Fordham students being denied the chance to form an SJP, to a bogus lawsuit against SFSU. And they remind us of the challenges we’re sure to face next year, if the U.S. Senate votes to confirm anti-Palestinian crusader Kenneth Marcus to a top civil rights post at the U.S. Department of Education.

We look forward to another year of exposing Israel groups’ suppression agenda, and protecting your rights to advocate for Palestinian freedom! ▻https://palestinelegal.org/news/2017/12/14/2017-social-media-highlights

Kenneth Marcus, nominee for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education, can’t name a single thing in Trump’s civil rights record he disagrees with. ▻https://twitter.com/pal_legal/status/940608284440096768

Gates Foundation failures show philanthropists shouldn’t be setting America’s public school agenda - LA Times
▻http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-gates-education-20160601-snap-story.html

Tucked away in a letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last week, along with proud notes about the foundation’s efforts to fight smoking and tropical diseases and its other accomplishments, was a section on education. Its tone was unmistakably chastened.

“We’re facing the fact that it is a real struggle to make systemwide change,” wrote the foundation’s CEO, Sue Desmond-Hellman. And a few lines later: “It is really tough to create more great public schools.”

(...) the Gates Foundation has spent so much money — more than $3 billion since 1999 — that it took on an unhealthy amount of #power in the setting of #education policy. Former foundation staff members ended up in high positions in the U.S. Department of Education — and, in the case of John Deasy, at the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

#gates_foundation #philanthrocapitalisme

School to Prison Pipeline Wilson Reyes: ‘School-To-Prison Pipeline’ Debate Reignites With NYPD Cuffing Of 7-Year-Old | News One

▻http://newsone.com/2102611/school-to-prison-pipeline-wilson-reyes

▻http://media.blackplanetnext.com/photos/4b/ac/69/4bac69be70fe7b95f6253ff4194c368d78d92ef4_large

From the beginning of this year, the U.S. Department of Education acknowledged that Black and Hispanic youth faced harsher discipline than that of their White counterparts: The Education Department reported that one in five Black boys and one in 10 Black girls received out-of-school suspension. Combined, Black students were three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than Whites. Because of this bleak reality, many students who incurred minor offenses were met with harsh consequences that eventually led to police detention.

Although numbers and data tell the story, nothing compares to an actual depiction of overzealous discipline at work. On Thursday, NewsOne reported on the case of third-grader Wilson Reyes, 7 (pictured), who was allegedly involved in a scuffle at his school in the Bronx with another student over a $5 bill back in early December.

#états-unis #new_york #enfance #enfants #école #éducation #punitions #discipline